We've taken a look at the best teams in the NBA and the worst teams in the NBA. Now let's take a
look at the individual awards, starting with the NBA Most Valuable Player award. Here are the early
favorites for the 2012 MVP Award.
1. Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City Thunder
During the lockout, Kevin Durant was busy balling all around the country.
With the NBA season set to begin on Christmas Day, let's take a further look at the basketball
landscape. We already looked at the NBA power rankings to see the best teams in basketball. Now,
let's look at the worst. Here are the top 10 worst teams in the NBA headed into the 2011-12
season.
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Finally. The NBA lockout, which never really made that much sense, is over. The NBA owners
softened there stances are a number of key issues and a deal was reached early Saturday morning.
While both sides have to vote to make this deal official, that is all just a matter of time.
Among the issues the owners softened on were rules regarding the mid-level exception,
sign-and-trades and even the overall BRI split.
The ball was in the NBA players' court coming into Monday morning. The players could have
accepted the NBA owners' latest offer and a 72-game season would have begun on Dec. 15. Instead,
the players decided to disband their union and sue the NBA.
After the news became public, NBA commissioner David Stern said that the NBA is now in a nuclear
winter.
Everyone in the basketball world was hopeful over the last three days due to the many, many
hours the players and owners were negotiating. The NBA lockout has to be coming to an end,
right?
Not so fast.
After talking for more than 30 hours, the two sides say that hardly any progress has been
made.
Do you still not believe this is going to be a long, long NBA lockout? The latest proof came on
Tuesday when the NBA owners sued NBA players. In fact, NBA owners filed a pair of claims claiming
everything from NBA players being uncooperative and that the players were making harmful
threats.
Legal experts see this as a ploy by the owners to beat the players to the punch.
